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934264

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Employment: Statistics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government has made an assessment of the validity of the inclusion of people on zero hour contracts in official employment statistics.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	160234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 06/07/2018 11:51:46 question first ministerially corrected 08/10/2018 10:09:36 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ160234 (1).pdf title UKSA response previous answer version 68028 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ160234 Holding Response.pdf title UKSA response
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

931177

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Catering and Hospitality Industry: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the current number of vacancies in the (a) hospitality and (b) food preparation industries.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	157008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply and will be depositing the response to the libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 28/06/2018 09:37:56 question first ministerially corrected 25/07/2018 10:43:27 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ157008.pdf title UKSA Response previous answer version 67062 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ157008 Holding Response.pdf title UKSA response
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

929363

registered interest
date	22/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Location
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) Government organisations and (b) departmental offices are based in (i) towns and (ii) cities in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	156622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply and I would be depositing a copy in the Library of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 27/06/2018 13:20:44 question first ministerially corrected 08/10/2018 10:09:49 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ156622 (1).pdf title UKSA response previous answer version 66043 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ156622 Holding Response.pdf title UKSA response
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

926926

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Nuclear Constabulary: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government’s plans to move Civil Nuclear Constabulary officers onto the Alpha Pensions Scheme from April 2019.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Jamie Stone
uin	155365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government has carried out extensive reforms of public service pension schemes to ensure that they are fair and sustainable, including the introduction of new pension schemes for the main public sector workforces in 2015. As part of these reforms the Government plans to move Civil Nuclear Constabulary officers into the Alpha Pension Scheme in due course. <ins class="ministerial">Officials are continuing to engage on this issue. </ins></p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 27/06/2018 15:33:05 question first ministerially corrected 28/06/2018 10:56:43 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden previous answer version 66146 answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4612 label Biography information for Jamie Stone

926575

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of the additional jobs in the UK labour market have been filled by (a) UK nationals and (b) non-UK nationals since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	154608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p><strong>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</strong></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 21/06/2018 09:28:06 question first ministerially corrected 25/07/2018 10:43:35 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ154608 PQ154609.pdf title UKSA response previous answer version 64806 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ154608 PQ154609 Holding Response.pdf title UKSA response
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

923151

registered interest
date	13/06/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Absent Parents: Suicide
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of suicides since 2000 of separated fathers compared to those of separated mothers.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL8615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>​The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply<del class="ministerial">.</del> <ins class="ministerial">and I will place the response in the Library of both houses.</ins></p><p> </p><p><em><strong>Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to The Lord Pearson of Rannoch, dated 15 June 2018.</strong></em></p><p>Dear Lord Pearson,</p><p> </p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am replying to your Parliamentary Question asking about the number of suicides since 2000 of separated fathers compared to those of separated mothers <strong>(HL8615)</strong>.</p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes suicide rates for the UK, constituent countries, regions and local authorities in England and Wales in an annual bulletin[1].</p><p>The information we hold on deaths is limited to what is recorded on the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death by a doctor, provided to the registrar by the informant at the time of death registration, or recorded by a coroner following their inquest into the cause and circumstances of the death. We can provide the number of suicides per year by legal marital status, but we have no available information on whether the deceased was (a) separated at the time of death, that is, living apart from their partner; or (b) was a father or mother.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 attached provides the numbers and crude rates per 100,00 persons of deaths due to suicide, by sex, for each year between 2000 and 2016 in England and Wales. The rates are broken down by marital status recorded at death. A copy has been placed in the House of Lords Library.</p><p> </p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p> </p><p><strong>John Pullinger </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1]<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/2016registrations" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/2016registrations</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 20/06/2018 15:35:32 question first ministerially corrected 22/06/2018 13:43:52 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham previous answer version 64664 answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

906297

registered interest
date	17/05/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the news release entitled Thousands of voters turned away from polling stations in mandatory ID trials, published by the Electoral Reform Society on 4 May 2018, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the estimate by the Electoral Reform Society that 3,981 people were turned away from polling stations across the five pilot areas; and if he will make an estimate of what that figure would be in the event that the scheme was rolled out nationally.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	145358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2018 answer text <p>Requiring some form of identification to vote was successfully tested at the local elections on 3 May by five local authorities: Bromley, Gosport, Swindon, Watford and Woking. The overwhelming majority of people cast their vote without a problem and the success of the pilots proves that this is a reasonable and proportionate measure to take, and there was no notable adverse effect on turnout.</p><p>The estimate by the political lobby group the Electoral Reform Society is exaggerated and inaccurate. Data from Returning Officers across all five participating local authorities shows that there were 340 electors asked to return to the polling station with the correct identification who did not subsequently return. This represents 0.16% of the votes cast.</p><p>This reflects that such identification was a brand new requirement, and a few electors may not have read the publicity that they were sent about the pilots.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">However, the experience of Northern Ireland, where paper ID has been required since 1985 and photo ID since 2003, illustrates that there should be no issue with voters not knowing - once the requirement has become established.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Electoral Commission is responsible for carrying out an independent, statutory evaluation of the pilot schemes and will publish its findings in the summer of 2018; this will be an opportunity to review how the publicity arrangements operated and could be improved. This is one of the benefits of piloting the policy.</ins></p><p> </p><p>Requiring some form of identification to vote was successfully tested at the local elections on 3 May by five local authorities: Bromley, Gosport, Swindon, Watford and Woking. The overwhelming majority of people cast their vote without a problem and the success of the pilots proves that this is a reasonable and proportionate measure to take, and there was no notable adverse effect on turnout.</p><p>The estimate by the political lobby group the Electoral Reform Society is exaggerated and inaccurate. Data from Returning Officers across all five participating local authorities shows that there were 340 electors asked to return to the polling station with the correct identification who did not subsequently return. This represents 0.14% of the votes cast.</p><p>This reflects that such identification was a brand new requirement, and a few electors may not have read the publicity that they were sent about the pilots.</p><p> </p><p>However, the experience of Northern Ireland, where paper ID has been required since 1985 and photo ID since 2003, illustrates that there should be no issue with voters not knowing - once the requirement has become established.</p><p>The Electoral Commission is responsible for carrying out an independent, statutory evaluation of the pilot schemes and will publish its findings in the summer of 2018; this will be an opportunity to review how the publicity arrangements operated and could be improved. This is one of the benefits of piloting the policy.</p><p> </p><p>There was an error in the data previously presented. Whilst the individual totals of votes cast in each local authority were correct, the overall total was incorrectly summed. The previously quoted total of votes cast of 206,741 should have been 234,506. As a result, the percentage of people who did not return as a proportion of number of votes cast was overstated, incorrectly given as 0.16%. The correct figure is 0.14%. The attached table contains the correct data.</p><p> </p><p>As part of its planned evaluation, the Electoral Commission will continue to collect and analyse a wide range of data and information about the pilots, including public opinion surveys, data from polling stations, turnout and postal voting data, and polling station staff surveys. We will continue to work with the Electoral Commission and other partners to ensure that the emerging data gives an accurate picture of how ID pilots were delivered.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith previous answer version 59632 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith 60423 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith question first answered 25/05/2018 15:13:05 question first ministerially corrected 01/06/2018 09:26:25 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name Pre evaluation voter ID polling station data (1) (1).xlsx title Pre evaluation vote
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

901241

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the five most common cancer diagnoses were among (a) men and (b) women in (i) 2007 and (ii) 2017.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	142781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 15/05/2018 13:53:44 question first ministerially corrected 16/05/2018 12:24:02 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ142781.pdf title UKSA Response previous answer version 57966 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

884914

registered interest
date	16/04/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in the UK were born in Commonwealth countries and arrived in the UK before 1971.
tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
uin	135902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 19/04/2018 16:16:51 question first ministerially corrected 23/04/2018 09:50:54 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ135902.pdf title UKSA Response previous answer version 52836 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ135902 HR.pdf title UKSA Response
tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

873488

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to increase voter registration among under-registered groups.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	904630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2018 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">I continue to have regular conversations with the Secretary of State for Scotland on the return of powers from Brussels to Holyrood following exit from the EU. Furthermore, we are both part of JMC(EN) where this, amongst other issues, has been discussed with the devolved administrations.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Our inaugural National Democracy Week in July is going to be a UK-wide event, intended to increase democratic engagement among a wide range of under-registered groups. Last Wednesday we launched its website and a youth engagement toolkit for parliamentarians and later this year will recruit and train youth Democracy Ambassadors.</ins></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 28/03/2018 16:01:12 question first ministerially corrected 03/04/2018 10:54:32 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith previous answer version 50507 answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington answering member 15
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris